How do I say VOT in Spanish?
Technical fields with specialized terminology need translations
Many fields don’t have satisfactory translations into many langauges
Most academics aren’t translators
We can learn from anime
Fansubs are…
Arose out of necessity
Translate linguistic terminology in Romance languages
Provide community forum for consulting/suggesting/discussing translation
Made by end-user for end-user (i.e. linguists)
Reverse wikipedia + google search
Find articles/books
Ask a prof/advisor/lab buddy
Wing it
Wikipedia only has entries in russian
No pertinant articles/books in TL
(linguistic) God complex
reliance on specific translation because it’s what somebody else said first (Chomsky, Bosque, etc.)
doesn’t take into account that it might not be a good translation
Prof/advisor/lab buddy doesn’t know/care
Eliminates God complex?
Creates a database that formed by linguists that can be accessed by linguists (students, profs)
Minimalist design
Intuitive
Accesible from mobile devices
User submissions
Staging
Revision
Inclusion
Query sent to database through PHP
Database searched for ‘x’ term
Result sent back to webpage through PHP
Required info collected for each submission
Functional dictionary with limited entries
Build forum
Promote to linguists
Become principle reference for linguistic terminology in Romance
Grow user base
Serve as model for language revitalization projects
open source code (github)
NOTES - the community establishes authority (Kiraly 2003)